Rice Trivia

Trivia Question:Name the state champion high school baseball teammates who are scheduled to be on opposing rosters at Lupton Stadium in Fort Worth tonight.For a bonus point, name a third teammate who played at Reckling Park last week.Email your answerhere.

Trivia Answer:Edith Head, who earned a master of arts degree in romance languages from Stanford in 1920, was an eight-time Oscar-winning costume designer.Read more.This weekend, Rice baseball plays a four game set against Stanford at Reckling Park.

Trivia Answer:Avid Rice baseball fan Texas Anderson ‘81/’85, who won an ARA Meritorious Service Award in 2003, is the mother of Wes Anderson whose film ”The Grand Budapest Hotel” is nominated for nine Academy Awards this Sunday.Click here for a recent Los Angeles Times story entitled “Wes Anderson braces for Oscars’ appraisal of Grand Budapest Hotel”.

Trivia Answer:Last month, Jim Skaggs, who is the father of Rice baseball lettermen Jon (Lovett ’01) and Drew (Jones ’02), was honored as one of the five HBU greats named to the 1970s All-Decade Team.Read more.Yesterday, Rice baseball hosted HBU at Reckling Park.

Trivia Answer:Ford Stainback’s grandfather, Bo Sexton, was a baseball and football letterman at the University of Texas (1954-57). This weekend, Rice baseball opens the season with a four game set against UT at Reckling Park.